Nova is a policy professional who consults and collaborates with state agencies and community partners to implement multi-system and cross-agency policy initiatives to ensure unified approaches to behavioral health service delivery and improve outcomes for children, adults, and families with behavioral health needs. Most recently she initiated and oversaw a Statewide Cross Systems Trauma-Informed Care Transformation initiative in Texas. She has also served as the policy subject matter expert on MH/IDD at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission since 2012. Nova’s specific focus areas include, improving behavioral health services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), increasing access to mental health care for first responders, enhancing school mental health partnerships, and strengthening trauma-informed care policy across systems. She is trained as a trauma-sensitive schools coach, and a trauma-informed care and mindfulness for schools trainer, and works closely with state and local education partners in supporting implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools through a SAMHSA-AWARE grant and legislative implementation.
Evans, Nova
Facciola, Victoria
As a previous intern at Youth and Family Services in Rapid City, SD, I worked with children and families who have experienced trauma. I am moving to Washington where I will work as a therapist with teens who are experiencing co-occurring disorders, often associated with trauma.
Fairbanks Native Association
The Fairbanks Native Association (FNA) Youth and Young Adult Services (YYA) Healing the Hurts project will focus on acts of violence – child abuse and neglect, sexual violence, and suicide – all of which AI/AN experience at disproportionate rates. The purpose of Healing the Hurts is to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment services in the Fairbanks North Star Borough for AI/AN children, adolescents, and the families who experience trauma events.
Family and Children's Service, Inc., NJ
Family & Children's Services (FACS) in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is providing trauma treatment and therapeutic services to children, adolescents and their families who experience/witness traumatic events. Utilizing interventions developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), Transforming Trauma will continue to provide leadership on child/adolescent issues to the provider communities throughout New Jersey, build the capacity of statewide service system to implement trauma-informed service practices (including professional training, public information, and outreach/screening, referral), and build a network of trauma-capable providers. Transforming Trauma will focus on making services accessible to military families that live on or near nearby military bases, homeless families, forensically-involved and other underserved youth and their families. We will train clinicians throughout the state of New Jersey to deliver services to children and families impacted by trauma utilizing one of four evidence-based therapeutic models including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT); and Families Over Coming Under Stress (FOCUS).
Family and Children's Services Inc.
Family & Children's Services Child Abuse and Trauma Services (CATS) provides evidence-based, trauma-focused treatment to children/youth (ages 0-18+) and their families who have experienced, abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences and who reside in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma. CATS offers in office and in home therapy for families who cannot access in office appointments. Intervention models used: Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Services include individual, family and group models. The CATS team specializes in providing therapy for youth with Illegal Sexualized Behaviors and offers a supportive educational group for caregivers of children who have been sexually abused. Therapists collaborate with community providers, including DHS Child Welfare, court systems, Health Home, schools, pediatricians, in-patient services, attorneys, etc.
Family and Children's Services, Inc
Family and Children's Services is a non-profit mental health counseling and social services agency that has served the residents of Union County for more than 125 years. Licensed by the NJ Department of Health, the agency provides trauma counseling, using
Family Centered Treatment Foundation, Inc.
The Family Centered Treatment Foundation (FCTF) is the nationally recognized provider of the evidence-based Family Centered Treatment (FCT). The primary purpose of the Family Centered Treatment - Trauma Series Project is to enhance evidenced-based family-systems trauma treatment and increase access to its availability to ensure high-quality treatment for families from a wide range of populations. The NREPP registered FCT model has a strong trauma focus embedded both in the theoretical framework and design and in the practical application. The service delivery system of FCT includes the public sectors of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and substance abuse. Male and female populations of all ages are included with histories or current involvement in Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Developmental Disabilities, Juvenile Justice systems, military families, families living in impoverished and high-risk communities. The FCT model recognizes the importance of having a cultural and contextual understanding to the traumatic experiences of youth and their families in order to effectively treat all populations, including disadvantaged groups disproportionately affected by trauma. Thus, the goals of the project are to 1) enhance and expand FCT to better serve families of complex trauma; 2) Extend the access to FCT for families/victims of complex trauma in the identified states and additional states; and 3) advance the awareness and access of FCT nationally for trauma centers. Expanding availability and implementation of trauma treatment through training programs to current FCT sites are expected to incrementally impact 1,440 families annually in 9 states and expanding training to additional sites and states serving 7,200 families over the course of the project.
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone
The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provide mental health treatment to patients ages 5 and up. We provide services in a large OMH licensed mental health clinic, in integrated medical sites, in homeless shelters, and in school health clinics. Many of our providers are trained in evidence based practices to treat trauma related disorders.
Family Health Centers of NYU Langone Health - Brooklyn
The grant has allowed us to expand the treatment we offer to children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. We will be offering Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) to these children and families over the 5 year period.